The World - News from Dec. 21, 1988
President Pieter W. Botha fired South Africa’s only nonwhite Cabinet minister after a six-month probe into corruption in Parliament. Botha announced he was dismissing Amichand Rajbansi, 46, after studying the findings of a judicial inquiry into corruption and graft in the Indian chamber that Rajbansi heads. South Africa’s Parliament has separate chambers for whites, Indians and Colored (mixed-race) but excludes the black majority. Botha brought one Indian and one mixed-race politician into the Cabinet in 1984. But the mixed-race politician, Allan Hendrickse, resigned last year after a dispute with Botha over racially segregated beaches.
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